Good morning everyone! Yesterday we worked on our overhead squats. This is a deceivingly hard movement. All of us know what a squat is supposed to look like. Now, just do it and hold something over your head. It should be easy, right? WRONG. It quadruples the difficulty of the movement to take something heavy and hold it over your head. Just ask anyone who was there yesterday! Even people with nearly perfect air squats will struggle with this movement. The weight overhead will reveal even the tiniest of flaws in an air squat. Have a tendency to drift onto your toes? Does your chest come forward as you get lower? ALL of your flaws will be magnified, as you’ll likely be unable to complete a full overhead squat without rock solid form.

For those of you who endured squat therapy against the wall, I don’t want you to feel like you were being “sent back to Kindergarten”. A proper squat takes a while to develop, and it is ESSENTIAL that your squat be stellar before putting you under any type of load. I personally apologize to everyone who has done weighted squats under my supervision prior to being ready. Going forward, we’ll work everyone on the wall until they are good and ready! Sometimes as a trainer I sense that people are eager to go heavy, and feel annoyed when they are sent to the wall instead. I can assure you that your annoyance will no longer have any effect on me. Get to the wall, and perfect that form!

Did anyone see that lady last night at the gym who looks a lot like me? That’s my SEESTER and she has finally been convinced to give CrossFit a shot! Welcome Jaime!

Barbie was daydreaming of what her hamstrings will look like this summer….

Also, take a look at these two pictures of Matt…..

Can you tell which picture represents proper bar placement? What is improper/proper about the bar placement?